152 maxillaria. 



Synopsis op Species and Varieties. 

 Maxillaria acutipetala. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, l^ — 2 incbes long, prominently ribbed and 

 furrowed, dipbyllous. Loaves broadly linear, acute, 7 — 10 or more 

 inches long. Scapes 5-6 inches long, sheathed by three oblong, 

 obtuse bracts. Flowers 2| inches across the lateral sejjals ; sepals and 

 petals light orange-yellow, paler and spotted with dark sanguineous 

 purple behind ; the sepals linear-oblong, obtuse ; the petals similar but 

 narrower, shorter and very acute ; lip shorter than the other segments, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes narrow, erect, pale yellow streaked longi- 

 tudinally with red ; the front lobe oblong, obtuse, crisped and reflexed, 

 cream-white spotted with red. Column semi-terete, yellow streaked with 

 red. 



Maxillaria acutipetala, Hook, iu Bot. Mag. t. 3966 (1843). Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 

 1343, misc. No. 36. 



Introduced to the Eoyal Gardens at Kew more than fifty years 



ago from Central America by Mr. Barclay, a gardener attached to 



Her Majesty's surveying ship, Sulphur. It much resembles Maxillaria 



picta on superficial view, but the flowers are larger, of brighter 



colours, and have a differently -shaped labellum; it flowers in the 



winter months. Mr. P. W. Moore, of Glasnevin, kindly sent us 



materials for description. 



M. crocea. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, compressed, about an inch long, monophyllous. 



Leaves narrowly ligulate, sub-acute, 5 — 7 inches long. Scapes 4 — 5 



inches long ; bracts subulate, ^ inch long. Flower orange-yellow ; sepals 



linear, acute, an inch long; petals similar but shorter and bent forwards; 



lip short and fleshy, reflexed, crisped at the margin, brownish red. 



Column semi-terete, coloured like tlie lip. 



Maxillaria crocea, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1799 (1836). Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. 

 p. 522. 



Introduced from Eio de Janeiro in 1833 by Captain Sutton, of 



the Eoyal Packet Service, and presented by him to Sir Charles 



Lemon, Bart., in whose garden at Carclew it flowered in the 



following year. It is very near Maxillaria punctata, but much 



more attractive. 



M. fucata. 



Pseudo-bulbs clustered, narrowly ovate-oblong, 1| — 2^ inches long, 

 compressed with acute edges. Leaves lanceolate, 12 — 15 inches long, 

 narrowed below into a conduplicate petiole one-third the length of 



